This discussion explores the meteoric canonisation of Thomas Becket, his subsequent veneration and the destruction of his reputation during the Reformation in the Tudor period.
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Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, University of Tübingen (Deadline 31st May 2021)
The Centre for Advanced Studies “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” at the University of Tübingen, Germany invites applications for resident fellowships starting in the year 2021 and 2022. The fellowships are available for a duration between one and twelve months.
Online Conference: Epiphanies of the Saints in Late Antique Literature (University of Warsaw, 21st May 2021)
The international conference “Epiphanies of the Saints in Late-antique Literature”, hosted by the University of Warsaw, will take place on May 21, 2021. Keynote addresses will be given by Vincent Déroche, Stephanos Efthymiadis, Danuta Shanzer, and Bryan Ward-Perkins.
Online Lecture: ”more busines to fynd out what should be read, then to read it when it was founde out’: A Material History of the Bible in Late Medieval and Early Modern England’ (11th May 2021, 17:30 pm GMT)
The final installment of the 2020-2021 London Medieval Manuscripts Seminar (hosted by the Institute of English Studies, University of London) is Tuesday 11th May 2021 at 17:30 pm GMT. Eyal Poleg from Queen Mary University London will delivering the lecture.
Online Lecture: Across the Margin: Finding a New Page from Jean Bourdichon’s Hours of Louis XII (28th May 2021, 1 pm EST)
This talk will begin by revealing a stunningly beautiful and previously unknown detached miniature from a royal Book of Hours created by the court artist Jean Bourdichon around 1498.
Job: Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History, Oklahoma State University
The preferred area of specialization is in the art of the pre-modern and/or early-modern Mediterranean world (classical, medieval, and/or early modern). An interest in global interactions between Europe and other regions is also welcome (such as the Atlantic world, Africa, the Middle East, or South Asia).
Call for Papers: From Fragment to Whole: Interpreting Medieval Manuscript Fragments (Deadline 31st May 2021)
This conference, hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies, is devoted to the study of manuscript fragments, and what these fragments can tell us about lost books, medieval and post-medieval book history, and textual history.
Online Study Day: People, Place, and the City (University of Southampton Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, 26th May 2021)
The study day will combine three exciting events: an academic conference, a round table discussion and the Reuter Lecture 2021.
Job: Lecturer in Early Modern World History Education, Kings College London, deadline 18 May 2021
King’s College London is seeking a Lecturer in Early Modern World History Education for a twelve month term beginning 1st September 2021, at the university’s Strand campus.
New Publication: ‘Beyond Words: New Research on Manuscripts in Boston Collections’, edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Lisa Fagin Davis, Anne-Marie Eze, Nancy Netzer, and William P. Stoneman
Developed out of a joint exhibition and conference held in the autumn of 2016, this collection of papers delivers ‘a broad overview of the history of patronage and book production over the course of the High and late Middle Ages, to the extent that the eclectic holdings of Boston-area institutions permitted’.
Medieval Art Research 